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Contestation over war memorialization can help democratic
theory respond to the current attenuation of citizenship in war in liberal
democratic states, especially the United States. As war involves more advanced
technologies and fewer soldiers, the relation of citizenship to war
changes. In this context war memorialization plays a particular role in refiguring
the relation. Current practices of remembering and memorializing war
in contemporary neoliberal states respond to a dilemma: the state needs to
justify and garner support for continual wars while distancing citizenship
from participation. The result is a consumer culture of memorialization that
seeks to effect a unity of the political community while it fights wars with
few citizens and devalues the public. Neoliberal wars fought with few soldiers
and an economic logic reveals the vulnerability to otherness that leads
to more active and critical democratic citizenship.

The cosmopolitan aspiration to know our common humanity is being re-engaged in with increasing prominence in international law, in global governance, in claims of human rights and in calls for global justice. This, in turn, has produced novel discourses of the human subject that can be the subject of international law and governance and the bearer of human rights. Chris Brown's interesting and thoughtful article proposes a way of knowing our common humanity that draws on recent developments in evolutionary psychology. Adapted from the source document.

A review essay on a book by Heather Jacklin and Peter Vale (Eds.), Re-imagining the Social in South Africa: Critique, Theory and Post-apartheid Society (Scottsville, South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2009).

As culture becomes more central to the teaching of international relations, political theory is likewise more a part of international relations. In light of globalization and the increasing salience of global cultural politics, the way political theory is taught and practiced must be revisited as well. This article investigates one such investigation, the idea of a comparative political theory. Comparative political theory seeks to introduce non-Western thought into political theory. This article probes the pedagogical difficulties this poses for a liberal democratic higher education.

This article investigates the prospects for interdisciplinary global studies in the changing context of university education. Its central question is: as power & structure in the university become more & more integrated with the transformations of globalization, how can global studies become an authorized site of research & teaching while resisting the rules & micro-powers in the university that constitute it as such an authorized site that is increasingly determined by neoliberal globalization? 27 References. Adapted from the source document.